by guest blogger Courtney Pineau. When you look a little closer, you often find that your food contains ingredients with unwanted genetically modified organisms (GMOs). If you are ready to spring-clean GMOs out of your diet, here are 10 easy steps to help you give them the boot
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10 Ways to Spring-Clean
GMOs Out of Your Home

Happiness is Gardening in Spring!
No matter how many years pass by, each new spring brings with it the hope and optimism of a new garden. Seed packets are like candy to me, and I buy them impulsively and just because the wrapping makes me excited.

Stuffed Mussels
For some strange reason, my kids love mussels. But a bag of them steamed just plain (or even with browned butter) doesn’t do it for me. So, I was looking for a way to make them that would yum them right up. I found it!

Top 5 Tastiest Tulips
by guest blogger Keriann Koeman. Organic tulip petals are quite tasty. They taste like sweet lettuce, making them a gorgeous addition to salads. Tasting tulips is like tasting wine: You have the top note and the finish. Here are my top picks for the best-tasting tulips, arranged from sweet to peppery.

Three-Bean Salad in 10 Minutes – An American Classic
The other day I had a hankering for three-bean salad. Perhaps it was that I wanted something pickle-like… So I quickly found a recipe and adapted it to my own taste (I cut the sugar!) and made it organic. This recipe took all of 10 minutes to make.

Life on the Nothing White Diet
by guest blogger Maya Rodale. I also swore off white flour, sugar, and dairy to see if this shift in diet might help with my feelings of fatigue and generally blah-ness. While I was no means perfect in adhering to it, I did notice an improvement.

6 Reasons Organics Can
Feed the World
by guest blogger Coach Mark Smallwood. Six things to say to friends, family, and total strangers when they tell you organics can’t feed the world

Queen Conch
Talk about eating local! There is nothing more local than eating raw conch on an island where they grow the conch and harvest them right out back!
Scratch
Raised on America’s first organic farm, Scratch author Maria Rodale learned how to make everyday favorites from, yes, scratch — the way you remember them; the way they turn out best.
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Organic Manifesto
Drawing on findings from leading health researchers as well as conversations with both chemical and organic farmers from coast to coast, Maria Rodale irrefutably outlines the unacceptably high cost of chemical farming on our health and our environment.
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